21 thoughts on “US war veterans suffering from PTSD”

AS WARS LENGTHEN, TOLL ON MILITARY FAMILIES MOUNTS
”He didn’t want to go — he was afraid, but he had a job that he’d signed up to do and he went and did it,” Shane said. ”I do think it led up to everything that happened. … It opened up a world of death and chaos and uncertainty”. . . . ”The tactics learned as part of military training are often used by those who commit domestic violence.”http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Military-Scarred-Families.html

Lightening storms may have kept national AFL-CIO President John Sweeney’s plane from landing here in time for the Connecticut AFL-CIO convention June 23, but nothing could stop the delegates’ determination to prepare for their strongest mobilization ever in the 2008 elections. . . . The convention unanimously adopted a resolution reaffirming opposition to the war by national and state labor bodies, and asserting that Obama “shares labor’s opposition — while John McCain supports the war and President Bush’s military policy.”

SEPTEMBER 1: ST. PAUL MARCH ON THE RNC TO STOP THE WAR
We demand that U.S. troops get out of Iraq. We want money for human needs, not for war. We say no to this agenda. We demand peace, justice and equality.